Thrillist not too long ago revealed an article about two passengers arrested on the Norwegian Pleasure with 112 plastic baggies of pot, totaling roughly 160 kilos, firstly of a cruise from Miami to Southampton.
Based on the article, drug enforcement officers approached two passengers, Michael Quesenberry and Savannah Rose Minami as soon as they board the NCL cruise ship on the Port of Miami on January 11, 2024. Ms. Minami claimed they that didn’t know one another and had simply met at a bar on the cruise ship. However their story shortly started to disintegrate after drug canines alerted on Mr. Quesenberry’s baggage the place the officers discovered 56 vacuum-sealed baggies of weed. Quesenberry tried to say that the pot was for his private use. The DEA officers then questioned Ms. Minami once more and reportedly discovered one other 56 plastic luggage of weed in her baggage in her cabin.
A particular agent employed by the U.S. Homeland Safety who arrested and charged the pair with drug trafficking wrote in an affidavit in assist of the felony criticism (by way of Court docket Watch): “Based mostly on my coaching and expertise, drug traffickers are more and more turning to exportation of marijuana from america to England, as a result of greater worth of marijuana in England.”
Drug busts for cocaine on cruise ship usually are not notably uncommon. However I’ve by no means seen two individuals arrested for possessing the very same quantity of such a big amount of weed.
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